THE RUNAWAY VICAR.
.-'; 4 ;— . : EXPLANATIONS BY WIRELESS. By Taleerar/h—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. February 17, 11.15 p.m;) London, February 17. The "Daily Mall" states that Captain Hutchison, commander of the Port Lincoln, transmitted by wireless Knight's message to the Bishop of Ripon, relinquishing priestly orders, and also a statement to ' the i public to ' the effect' that whilo working in Leeds in connection with the white slave' traffic he lost his good reputation, and tho reputation of a comrade who was working with him, through babbling tongues seeing oyil where none existed. "While seeking to prevent a girl from being sent to a house of ill-fame at Leeds, I was openly accused of evil by one of my church workers, and feeling that I had brought ruin and disgrace upon the Church Ithought by trying in a new country I might recover for myself oad restore to my comrade a new reputation."
Knight adds that his wife was nol blameworthy.
' "I am prepared to bear the consequences. I have no definite plans/ except working for my,living and seeking, oven as:,an outcast, to do some good in the,world and redeem what appears to bo evil."
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1677, 18 February 1913, Page 5
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192THE RUNAWAY VICAR. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1677, 18 February 1913, Page 5
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